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nursery. If the Ministry payment had been nearer the net cost of looking
after a child at a nursery, probably more use would have been made of
the scheme. Only one child was cared for during the year under these
arrangements.
Even though there might not in any area be sufficient children requiring
looking after to enable their mothers to be free to accept work,
generally because financially she is forced to do it, to create the need for
a nursery in that locality, there must be scattered throughout the area
large numbers of mothers so placed. Some of these cannot afford the
daily guardian's charges. It would be a real help to some if the Authority
could supplement the mother's payment to an approved guardian.
Residential Nursery.
There is room for a residential nursery which could accept for shortperiod
stay children up to five years of age who temporarily cannot be
looked after at home. Such an institution would be a useful supplement
to any day nursery which was continued in the district.